Nordenskjöld Basin is an undersea basin named in association with the
Nordenskjöld Ice Tongue
The Mawson Glacier () is a large glacier on the east coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, descending eastward from the Antarctic Plateau to the north of Trinity Nunatak and the Kirkwood Range, to enter the Ross Sea, where it forms the Nordenskjöld ...
(itself after explorer
Otto Nordenskjöld
Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (6 December 1869 – 2 June 1928) was a Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer.
Early life
Nordenskjöld was born in Hässleby in Småland in eastern Sweden, in a family that included his maternal unc ...
). Name approved 4/80 (ACUF 201).
References
Oceanic basins of the Southern Ocean
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